Iâ€™m headed to BEA next week (Iâ€™m on the conference advisory board for the BEA Bloggers part of the conference), and will have a good three days of listening to publishers talk about ebooks (and hopefully libraries).

So I thought it would be a good idea to see where we stand right now with ebooks, the Big Six, and some of our current ebook vendors.

Hereâ€™s a list of the major ebook vendors, and what they offer in relation to the Big Six publishers:

3M, Baker & Taylor Axis 360:

Hachette

Simon & Schuster (but only if youâ€™re a large NYC-area library – theyâ€™re still in pilot project mode)

Macmillan

Penguin

HarperCollins

Random House

… and No Kindle formats.

OverDrive:

Hachette

Macmillan

HarperCollins

Random House

doesn’t have Penguin or Simon & Schuster

… OverDrive has Kindle versions of some titles (and that’s probably why they don’t have Penguin).

What does each publisher offer?

Hachette: Full catalog, released simultaneously with print, ebooks will cost 300% more than the print book. Unlimited number of checkouts, one copy per user model.

Simon & Schuster: started a 1-year pilot project on April 30 with New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, and the Queens Library. Full catalog, a one year purchase/lease, unlimited checkouts, one copy per user model.